Pasting apparatus for cigarette-machines.



No. 856,823. PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907. G. TIOKNBR, JR. PASTING APPARATUS FOR CIGARETTE MAdHINEs.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1906.

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GEORGE TICKNER, JR., OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PASTING APPARATUS FOR CIGARETTE-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

, Application filed August 9,1906. Serial No 329,933.

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE TICKNER, J r., a subject of the King of Great Britain, of 33 and 35 Endell street, London, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pasting Ap aratus for Cigarette-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a paratus for gumming or pasting the edge of paper for manufacturing cigarettes, in which one edge of a roll of paper of the neces sary width is fed continuously forward, and has one of its edges automatically gummed or pasted as it travels along, and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide means for automatically applying gum or paste perfectly uniformly and evenly to the edge of the paper; second, to provide means for triturating the gum or paste and freeing it from lumps and reducing it to a perfectly even and smooth condition before it is applied to the edge of the paper; and third, to the parts of the apparatus by which the trituration of the gum or paste and its application to the edge of the paper is efiected. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in sec tion, of the improved pasting apparatus. Fig. 2 is partly a transverse section through the end of the cylinder, and partly an end view. Fig. 3 is a plan of the apparatus. Fig. 4 is a'front view on a larger Scale, of the upper disk, and Fig. 5 1s a side view of the same.

The same letters of reference indicate similar parts in the different views.

a is a horizontal tube carried upon the frame I).

c is a piston or plunger fitting in the tube a and forced forward by the toothed rack (Z and toothed pinion e in the manner described in the specification of my former LettersPatent, dated August 14th 1906, No. 828,786.

f is a strong end cover to the cylinder a, having a recess 9 in which fits closely but freely the disk h. In a central hole i in said cover fitsa hollow trunnion j having longitudinal curved recesses 16 at its sides, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

f is a downward extension of the cylinder end f in which is formed a second recess 9 provide means for accurately adjustingsimilar to the upper one 9. A second disk h fits closely but freely in the recess 9 in which it can revolve.

Z is an outer cover fitting over both the recesses g and g, an opening between the recesses allowing the peripheries of the disks h and 72/ to touch as they revolve (as shown in Fig. 2).

m is a spindle passing through the outer cover Z and having fixed upon its inner end the disk h, and the short recessed cylinder A second spindle n parallel to the spindle m passes through the outer cover l, the disk h, and the cylinder end f and is continued to a bearing 0 at the other end of the supporting frame I), in which it is made to revolve by a toothed Wheel p gearing with any suitable part of the cigarette-making machine.

1', 1" are toothed wheels by which the spindles m, n, are coupled together, and s is a thumb screw mounted in a bracket 8, and bearing against the end of the spindle m, so that byturning said screw the spindle m will be moved to adjust the grooved face of the disk It, with relation to the wall of the recess As shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the upper disk h is dished or hollowed at t on its front surface, and the surface of this dishing is in the form of radial grooves extending from near the center to near the circumference (as illustrated in Fig. 4).

u is a thin horizontal disk upon a vertical spindle 12 carried in the adjustable support w and set in revolution by a pulley a: driven by a cord or belt y. The edge of this disk it passes through the narrow opening a at the side of the lower recess 9 and receives upon its edge the paste from the disk 7L. The edge of the paper strip which is to be pasted is fed along against the periphery of the thin disk u the upper edge of which is rounded, (as shown at 2 Fig. 2) and receives from the latter a continuous and even narrow line of paste along its edge.

The rack d is forced forward by a pinion e, and the pressure upon the piston c is regulated by means of a brake wheel, and a strap the tension of which is adjusted by a spring regulated by a screw, these devices being similar to those described and shown for the same purpose in the specification of my said former Letters Patent, dated August 14th, 1906, No. 828,786.

\Vhen this apparatus is in operation the paste (or other suitable material) with which the tube a is filled, is forced, by the pressure of the plunger 0 in the tube a, through the opening i in the cylinder end f, and along the curved recesses on the short revolving cylinder j into the center of the radial recesses 0n the dished front of the disk h upon the spindle m. The paste is thoroughly triturated and ground between the face and pe riphery of the disk 7t, and the corresponding wall and periphery of the recess g, the space between the peripheries being just sufficient to allow the finely mixed and smooth paste to pass, and the said space between the face of the disk 72 ,and said wall being accurately adjustable .by the screw 3. The paste so treated is transferred to the periphery of the second, or lower, disk 71/, through the opening between the adjoining recesses g and g, and is taken off from the last named disk by the edge of the thin disk at which presses against it through the opening in the side of the recess g, and thence to the edge of the paper.

The details of construction, and the relative proportions of the several parts may be varied more or less, as may be found advisable.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus for pasting a continu ous strip of paper, the combination with the paste receptacle, of a driving spindle mounted adjacent said receptacle, a driven spindle, gears connecting said spindles, disks mounted on said spindles and adapted to rotate in close peripheral engagement, means for feeding the paste between said disks, and a paste applying disk adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said engaging disks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially described.

2. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip of paper, the combination with a cylindrical paste chamber, of a pair of parallel spindles mounted adjacent said chamber, disks mounted on said spindles and adapted to rotate in close peripheral engagement, means for forcing the paste between the peripheries of said disks, and a paste applying disk adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said trituratingdisks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip of paper, the combination withthe paste receptacle, of a driving spindle mounted adjacent said receptacle, a driven spindle, gears connecting said spindles, disks mounted on said spindles and adapted to rotate in close'peripheral engagement, means for adjusting said disks, means for feeding the paste between said disks, and a paste applying disk adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said engaging disks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially as described.

4. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip of paper, the combination with a cylindrical paste chamber, of a pair of paral-" lel spindles mounted adjacent said chamber, disks mounted on said spindles and adapted to rotate in close peripheral engagement, means for forcing the paste between the peripheries of said disks, means for adjusting one of said disks, and a paste applying disk adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said triturating disks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially as described.

5. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip of paper, the combination with a cylindrical paste chamber, of a pair of parallel spindles mounted adjacent said chamber, disks mounted on said spindles and adapted to rotate in close peripheral engagement, means for forcing the paste between the peripheries of said disks, means for adjusting one of said disks, a vertical spindle mounted adjacent said disks, means for adjusting said spindle, and a paste applying disk mounted on said spindle and adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said triturating disks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially as described.

6. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip of paper, the combination with a cylindrical paste chamber, a plunger operating therein to force forward the paste, a hollow cylinder head provided with an opening opposite the paste chamber, a pair of spindles mounted adjacent said cylinder head, disks mounted on said spindles in the hollow of said cylinder head and adapted to rotate in close peripheral engagement, a grooved trunnion carried by one of said disksand adapted to rotate within the opening in said cylinder head, said disk being also provided with radially extending slots adapted to admit the paste between the peripheries of said rotating disks, and a paste applying disk adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said triturating disks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially as described.

7. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip "of paper, the combination with a cylindrical paste chamber, of a plunger working therein to force forward the paste, a pair of parallel spindles mounted adjacent said chamber, disks mounted on said spindles and adapted to rotate in close peripheral engagement, means for admitting the paste between the peripheries of said disks, means for adjusting one of said disks, a vertical spindle mounted adjacent said disks, means for adjusting said spindles, and a paste applying disk mounted on said spindle and adapted to receive the triturated paste from one of said triturating disks and transfer the same to the strip of paper, substantially as described.

8. In an apparatus for pasting a continuous strip of paper, the combination with a cylindrical paste chamber, of a plunger working therein to force forward the paste, a hollow head attached to the end of said cylinder, a pair of parallel spindles mounted adjacent said cylinder head, disks mounted on said spindles in the hollow of said cylinder head and adapted to rotate in close engagement, means for admitting the paste between the peripheries of said disks, means for adjusting said disks, a Vertical adjustable spindle mounted adjacent said disks, a paste applying disk mounted on said spindle, said cylinder head being provided with an opening, adjacent one of said rotating disks, through 15 which said paste applying disk is adapted to project and to receive the thoroughly smooth and triturated paste and transfer the same to the paper strip, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 20 hand in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE TICKNER, JNR.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR E. EDwARDs, D. K. BOYLE. 

